Text 15444, 103 rader
Skriven 2006-02-12 20:32:16 av Jeff Guerdat (1:229/2000)
  Kommentar till text 15434 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Try the VMware player
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Charles Scaglione -> Jeff Guerdat wrote:
 CS> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:51:00 -0500, Jeff Guerdat -> August Abolins
 CS> wrote:

 JG>> BTW, I've now got XP running in a VM under Linux using this.
 CS> You're not JG> supposed to be able to use the player to create a new
 CS>  VM but I found JG> some (coarse) directions on the Internet that got
 CS>  me started.  I JG> initially set it up on my XP desktop since it's
 CS> so much faster than my JG> Linux laptop but I transferred it tover
 CS> and it works *almost* perfectly. JG>   The difference is that
 CS> networking isn't working yet which might be a JG> problem with how I
 CS> had to set up my wireless card - no driver so I had JG> to use the
 CS> ndiswrapper kludge.  Maybe the twain shan't meet...

 CS> I have got to try that!  Thanks for mentioning it to August as I
 CS> would have never thought it could be setup that way.  BTW, where did
 CS>  you find the directions?  URL?

Start with http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000153064739/ but I changed
things a bit.  I used the FreeDOS he mentions which worked fine - once I
figured out the actual sequence and what I had to press when.  Just play
with it a bit - it will make sense once you get it to work.

I started out using the Browser-Appliance he suggests but 1) it was only
a 10MB (I think) disk and 2) I could never get the floppy to connect so
I could load the VMware disk driver
(http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/common/guest_win_scsidrv.html).  So,
eventually I changed to using the Fedora FC4 full install
(http://chaz6.com/?p=144) which worked fine.

 One thing I learned with all this is that there's a Phoenix BIOS
running the player - you can either use the key listed on the POST
screen (F2, I think) or just hit ESC as per the directions at the
Hackaday site and choose the Setup option at the bottom of the list.
Browsing this BIOS setup I found they attached the floppy controller and
assigned it as a 1.44 drive.  I had tried that under the Browser to no
avail - there must have been something else missing.

In order to load the disk driver, however, I had to change the .vmx file SCSI
section from "lsilogic" to "buslogic" - the driver is for the BusLogic device. 
Once I had THAT straightened out, XP loaded fine.   Whew!

Once XP is up and running, you need to load on the Windows version of the
VMware tools that comes with the Workstation edition.  I downloaded a slightly
old version (so I didn't need to register, etc.) and installed it on a machine
that didn't have the player installed (you can't install both on the same
machine).  Once loaded, look in the VMware folder under Program Files and grab
the .iso images you may want (I took both the Linux and Windows versions) and
store them someplace self and uninstall the software.  Now, either edit the
.vmx file to support the player's native ability to mount ISO images or write
it to a CD.  Mount the CD and run the setupo which will install the video,
mouse, network, etc. drivers for better performance.  Here's the section of the
.vmx file - (un)comment the lines depending on whether you want to use the
drive or the ISO file:

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
#ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
#ide1:0.fileName = "c:\windows.iso"
#ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
#ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
#ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

Also, if you want/need to do similar things for the floppy drive, make sure you
use "A:", not "a:" for the drive - it's case-sensitive.

The final sticking point was making networking work on the wireless adapter in
the Linux laptop.  Nothing I tried worked.  Turns out, after MUCH digging (it's
not well-documented) that I had to run the setup script in Linux multiple times
- first to set up the networking normally (won't work but...), choosing the
defaults, followed by running it again, editing the network setup more or less
according to http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/network_configure_ws.html
(keep reading to get to the Linux section).  Once at the point of answering Yes
to changing the network configuration, choose the editor as noted in the above
page.  I then chose to change #0 (vmnet0) to none and completed the setup with
no other changes.  Finally, one more setup run and change #0 (vmnet0) to bridge
to vmnet8, which is the default NAT network.  This will give you an address not
recognized by the rest of the network but allows you to access the network as
if you were on the laptop.  Note that none of this is needed if you don't use
wireless. Double WHEW!!

So, it works after much spinning of wheels.  I'm sure there will be
problems/questions so holler...

 CS> Also, this may interest you instead of using ndiswrapper:

 CS> https://www.linuxant.com/store/

 CS> He allows you to try it out for 30 days before purchasing a license
 CS> for $19.95.  Many folks have used this driver loader in lieu of
 CS> ndiswrapper.

Could be useful but I'm cheap...  ;)

-- 
Jeff Guerdat

Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

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